[uh, the discussion would be a bit better if some participants would
read the XML PR; for example, there's no more RMD, and it is made
very clear what a non-validating parser is required to do]
>What this stems from is the fact that my JavaScript XML parser has no
>_fundamental_ way of accessing URL's or files, and therefore no way of
>obtaining _anything_ external to the XML string it was given.
This is fine. Under no circumstances is a non-validating parser ever
required to fetch external objects.
*BUT*, you have to parse way through the internal subset, and you
have to do internal entities and default attributes declared therein. -Tim